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By Jon Paul Hoornstra
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The Los Angeles Dodgers announced Friday that they're calling up a minor league catcher from their Triple-A affiliate to replace an injured Freddie Freeman.
Rather than calling up Dalton Rushing, the top position-player prospect in the organization, the Dodgers recalled 27-year-old catcher Hunter Feduccia.
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A left-handed batter, Feduccia has 12 major league at-bats since his debut last year, and has collected four hits, two walks and one RBI in his brief career as a Dodger.
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Freeman was placed on the 10-day injured list Thursday with an ankle injury. Last September, he suffered a severe ankle sprain that normally would have required a four-to-six-week stint on the injured list.
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Freeman took a week off before Game 1 of the National League Division Series, then played the hero in Game 1 of the World Series with a walk-off grand slam against the New York Yankees.
Freeman slipped entering the shower on Sunday, re-aggravating the injury.
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"Halfway through my (Sunday) morning coffee, I was like, 'Oh, I'll just shower to get ready for the day,'" he said. "And next thing you know, I'm down in the bathtub. It's a great mental picture, if you guys want to think about it, big guy falling all over the place. ... Freak accident, you can't really make it up, crazy."
This is Freeman's first injured list stint since July 2020. Because it was backdated to Monday, Feduccia's stay in the big leagues could be another short one. Freeman can be activated as early as next Thursday.
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In 147 regular season games last year, Freeman slashed .282/.378/.476 with 22 home runs and 89 RBIs.
Feduccia slashed .279/.387/.451 in 90 games with Triple-A Oklahoma City in 2023, his first full season at the highest minor league level, but was not called up to the big leagues. The Dodgers are essentially set at catcher between All-Star Will Smith and veteran backup Austin Barnes.
Last year, Feduccia got his first big league taste amid a .284/.409/.428 season at Triple-A. He had played five games this season with the Oklahoma City Comets, batting .357 (5 for 14) with five walks and only two strikeouts.
In 452 career minor league games, Feduccia has a .268 batting average, .374 on-base percentage, .427 slugging percentage, 47 home runs, and 260 RBIs in 452 games.
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